Susan is a co-founder and Executive Director of Skill-Pill Mobile Learning, a start-up company based in London and offering mobile learning and information solutions to business.  She is responsible for product development and marketing for the company. 

Susan is also an international public speaker, corporate trainer and PR practitioner.  She is a partner of ASC Training & Consulting where she is responsible for sales, marketing and management training, as well as public relations consulting for a number of international organizations. 

She is a trained journalist and worked on a London newspaper in the early part of her career.  She also specializes in media and public speaking training for executives, educators and other professionals.

Previously, she was a senior consultant with the international PR firm, Hill & Knowlton, where she worked for 14 years.   Prior to this she ran her own Los Angeles-based PR firm that was acquired in 1986 by a leading international agency.

Susan has developed PR campaigns for a wide variety of clients in education, non-profit, technology, business- to- business, and economic development.  Organizations she has represented include EDS, 3Com, the Government of Singapore, London Business School, Cambridge University, The UK’s Teacher Training Agency, The Welsh Development Board, The Mentor Foundation, The British Olympic Association and the Federation for International Volley Ball.

As an international trainer, Susan teaches at a number of leading Universities in the USA, including San Jose State and USF (Tampa).  She has also run courses for Georgetown, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford and has developed one of the first on-line programs on new trends in communications for San Jose State.  In addition she has been a trainer for the PR Academy, an initiative of the Government of Singapore’s Ministry for Information, Technology and the Arts.

Susan has also led public and in-house seminars for many of the UK’s leading training organizations including, Hawksmere plc, Frost & Sullivan and Communications Skills Europe and the Civil Service College.  She is a certified trainer with Lloyd’s of London and has also run internal communications training for the UK’s Post Office.  In addition she teaches media training at a number of UK universities, including UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and delivers a variety of training programs for many leading PR agencies.  Susan is a member of the Advisory Board of the London School of Public Relations and has helped shape the structure and focus of the school’s diploma programs.

Susan has also played a full and active role in public life and has focused specifically on women’s issues in the workplace.  She is a member of the steering group for the European Commission’s Women in Industrial Research – a special project looking into ways to encourage more women into industrial research across the European Union.  She is also former chairman of the London Fair Play Consortium, a joint venture between the UK Government’s department for Employment and the Equal Opportunity Commission, whose remit is to identify and help remove the barriers to women playing a full role in the UK economy.  She is also a former chairman of the CAM Foundation, the UK’s leading awards body for qualifications in marketing, advertising and public relations.  

In addition Susan is a former Governor of a London public school for girls (part of the Girls’ Day School Trust) and has developed a series of training workshops, entitled CareerStart, for the Trust schools which equip high school students with the business skills they will need when they enter higher education or go out into the workplace.  She also advises The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Association on the charity’s global positioning and communications strategy.

She is an Accredited Member of the Public Relations Society of America, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and holds a diploma in Journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists. Susan is a graduate and active alumna of University College London and she chairs UCL’s fundraising campaign board in the United States.  

She has written two books - “Win New Business” (2002), and “ Corporate Reputation: The New Currency” (2003) both published by Acorn/Thorogood.

Susan has dual US/UK nationality and spends her time equally between the two countries.